“Those who know his work know he was an icon of bioethics,” says Maggie Little, the current director of the Kennedy Institute. We will also carry with us his example - of his remarkable capacity for both passion and gentleness, deep reflection and decisive action, intellect and heart.” “We feel this loss deeply, and will always be grateful for Ed’s countless contributions and his caring for our community, its members, and his profession. “We offer our thoughts and prayers to Ed’s family and loved ones,” Georgetown University President John J. Pellegrino and Maggie Little, director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, discuss bioethics during a 2009 event at Georgetown.

A private interment will follow.Ĭonsidered one of the founders of bioethics and an early pioneer in teaching humanities in medical schools, he was the author of more than 600 published articles in medical science, philosophy and ethics and author or co-author of 23 books. He died on June 13 and will be laid to rest tomorrow during a Mass of Christian Burial at Church of the Little Flower in Bethesda, Md., at noon. Pellegrino, who would have been 93 on June 22, was Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics and senior scholar at Georgetown’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics. JUNE 18, 2013ONE OF THE MOSTprominent founders of the field of bioethics and a longtime professor and professor emeritus at Georgetown has passed away at the age of 92.ĭr. Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics.

Edmund Pellegrino speaks during a symposium earlier this year, when Georgetown University Medical Center honored him by renaming the bioethics center he founded the Edmund D.

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